Australia's First University Press

Meanjin First Nations Writing

Meanjin 1977 to today

NOT YET PUBLISHED

How First Nations voices shape the national narrative


"This is writing about us, by us", as selected by Jeanine Leane and Dan Bourchier.

First Nations Writing: Meanjin 1977 to today captures the powerful Aboriginal and Torres Strait writers who have shaped the national conversation across peoples, place and time, showcasing the richness of First Nations writing and ideas that reflect on the past even as it imagines a future built on respect, fairness and truth.

It includes work by poets, public intellectuals, writers, philosophers, critics and social commentators that altogether show what it is to be an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person in Australia then, and now.


Daniel Bourchier

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Daniel Bourchier

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Jeanine Leane

About The Author

Jeanine Leane is a Wiradjuri writer, poet, and academic from New South Wales. Her poetry collection Dark Secrets After Dreaming won the Scanlon Prize, and her novel Purple Threads won the David Unaipon Award. Jeanine has won multiple poetry awards, including the Oodgeroo Noonuccal Prize and the David Harold Tribe Poetry Award. She teaches at…

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